The siege of Springfield was a siege of the colonial New England settlement of Springfield in 1675 by Native Americans during King Philip's War. Springfield...
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history of Springfield, Massachusetts dates back to the colonial period, when it was founded in 1636 as Agawam Plantation, named after a nearby village of Algonkian-speaking...
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Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut...
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Springfield College is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. The institution's mission, called the Humanics philosophy, calls...
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Captain Aldrich Terry Farrell as Major Agatha Doyle Corey Feldman as Siegal Rick Springfield as Corporal Ryan Troy Donahue as General Flemming Audie England...
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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at...
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The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans...
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Battle of Springfield was a battle of the American Civil War that took place on October 25, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. Following the Battle of Wilson's...
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Battle of Bloody Brook, Siege of Springfield, Great Swamp Fight 1676: Lancaster raid, Sudbury Fight, Battle of Turner's Falls, Second Battle of Nipsachuck...
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Vincent Speranza (category American recipients of the Legion of Honour)
His first engagement was in the Siege of Bastogne, where he operated a machine gun from a foxhole. During the siege, he visited a wounded comrade at...
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The Battle of Springfield was fought during the American Revolutionary War on June 23, 1780, in Union County, New Jersey. After the Battle of Connecticut...
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The siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. In the siege, American patriot militia...
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and served as a safehouse during the siege on Springfield during King Philip's War, and remained on the corner of what is now Fort Street, presently the...
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The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory in the American Revolutionary War, fought in the environs of Charles Town (today...
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The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American Revolutionary War...
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The siege of Savannah or the second battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) in 1779. The year before, the city...
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M14 rifle (category Springfield firearms)
served as the basis for several Springfield test rifles from 1945 through the early 1950s. In 1945, Earle Harvey of Springfield Armory designed an entirely...
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revolvers. Over 100 types of muskets, rifles, and rifled muskets were used in the Civil War, though the two most common were the Springfield Model 1861 and Pattern...
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The siege of Port Hudson (May 22 – July 9, 1863) was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi River in the American Civil...
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Wieambilla shootings (category Australian police officers killed in the line of duty)
without warning, the residents of the property, armed with a .308 Winchester Ruger M77 rifle and a .30-06 Springfield Tikka T3 rifle, shot at the police...
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1997 Roby standoff (section End of standoff)
unincorporated area of Christian County, Illinois, approximately 20 miles southeast of Springfield. In 1989, Allen's husband, John, died of pancreatic cancer...
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Miles Morgan (category History of Springfield, Massachusetts)
Appleton, with a force of men (the standing army of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), marched to Springfield and raised the siege. Miles Morgan died on 28...
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The Student Prince (restaurant) (category Restaurants in Springfield, Massachusetts)
the only building to survive the Siege of Springfield during King Philip's War. Traditional accounts of Springfield history say that the first city and...
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Here is a number of Springfield Model 1861 contract rifles produced elsewhere except Springfield Griffith, P. (2001). Battle Tactics of the Civil War. United...
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Stochastic terrorism (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
his running mate JD Vance. In the following days, the city of Springfield received dozens of bomb threats leading multiple commentators and a sitting senator...
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Theater of the American Civil War. It was fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. In August, Confederates under Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch...
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The siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between 2 July and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New...
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account of the siege of De'an in 1132 during the Jin–Song Wars, records that Song forces used fire-lances against the Jurchen. The earliest depiction of a gun...
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1988 film of the same title), was made about the team. Along with coaching youth baseball, Siegal was assistant coach for the Springfield College baseball...
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Mr. Burns (category Fictional members of secret societies)
Shearer. He is the mostly evil, devious, greedy, and wealthy owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and, by extension, Homer Simpson's boss. He is...
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